The Republican journal., 1887-12-15
Ueneralities.

icprosy j. said 10 exist in Rathsay. Minr.
Il i reported that China has decrecd the
Independence of t'orca.
;. John L. sullivan is drawing large and profit
able houses in England.
Sny1cr. tho Indiana pedestrian who couldn't
stop w.tihin@ died of exhaustion.
A row-mking machine has been invented
and patented by Nebraska man.
Lucky" Baldwin pays his horse trainer,
Il. W. I honia>. salary Of $4,000 year.
Governor Bi=g~, of Delaware. owns eleven
farms and mas made fortune from them.
The Baroness Rur,lett-Coutts has lust re-
epiAcd 4 heque>t Of S9.o00.000 from relative.
ton bales at Philadelphia and smothered to
DEATH
Five sisters in Terrell county. Ga. have
each eight children. all of whom are boys cX-
rept one.
several persons lave been killed and others
wounded by an earthquake in the province
Of Calabria, Italy.
4 Young woman of Reading, Pa, threw
class Of vitrioi into mans face because he
declined to marry her.
Mr. Charles Dickens. Jr., seems to have been
greatly impressed hv Niagara and spoke OF it
"a place of ahjcct terror
The state of Texas is likely to fall heir to
So.o00 600 or SO 900 600 left by the millionaire
Bean, who had no relatives.
With 50 large Il surplus the country would
not grudge the spending a few millions In the
experiment Of penny postage.
The latest census shows that the greater
number of men engaged in the Massachusetts
fishing business are native Americans.
\ mo-, of fifty armed men undertook to
Wipe out the town Of Gypsum, Kan. and five
men We're killed in the resulting afray.
Henry Quinn of Richmond. Eng. who died
Il short time since. bequcathed 81 .000,0O0 to
biz native town of Newry for charities.
The famous gildeI dome of Roston is sradu-
ally assuming reddish hue. 1t is suggested
that ii is b!ti9hing for the modern Athens.
jumping DOG. the Indian who recently fired
the cheyenne Agency. killed two of his guards
and eonGnttcd suicide with Il pair of shears
Y lady IN Saline county. Kansas. came with
in lf IoGes If defeating the most popular man
in the county for the Office Of Register of
nHui-.
standard oil Company has captured >ena-
tor Emery, oil refinery near Philadelphia,
the last independent concern on the Atlantic
S2ah3ar1.
The trial Of Vice President Harper, Of the
Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, for wrecking that
Institution by the late wheat deal. is progress
in- rapidly.
The captain OF a bark just arrived in Bos-
ton is charged Nth the murder of a japanese
sailor in the Java Sea. The defence is that
the Zap was mutinouS.
The supreme Court decided that the officials
OF Il state could not lie punished for enforcing
State laws, thus strengthening the case of the
c0upun-crushcr, in Virginia.
An effort viii be made in this Congress,
in the interest of economy. to prevent the
printing OF private bills until after they shall
have been favorahly reported.
1t is eaid that an attempt will be made in
this Congress to amend the interstate law so
as to affect the Canadian roads running
through United States territory.
California i, making large shipments of raj
sins 10 the East. train of twenty cars,
wholly rai>iM-la,en left Fresno recently. deco
rated with flags and streamer>.
The police have raidc,l another Nihilist rem
Grzvou> in It. Petersburg. where dynamite
was manufactured. There desperate
encounter and serious boodshcd.
The largest plate of bevellcd glass in the
United States is thirteen feet square and three
ci.hhs of foot in thickness. 1t is in the
front window of a Detroit liquor saloon.
Representative Townshend, of Illinois, pro-
poses Il consolidation of all the bureaus at
Washington in new department, to be known
aS the Department of Industries and Public
Works.
Women 10 not generally avail themselves of
the privilege TO vote for school officers in
Massachusetts. Only S31 women have regis
tered this year in Boston against 2,23S In 1880
and 1873 in 1856.
The Churchman" calls upon the bishops
of the Episcopal Church to take some further
action to brn" about Christian unity. 1t says
the clergy and laity of the Episcopal Church
are anxious for unity.
One Of the methods suggested by which inn
migration may be restricted is to require
every transatlantic steamship company to give
bonds to pay Il large sum for every objection
able passenger landed.
A provincial English newspaper in noticing
the recent American Board meeting ut Spring
field made the ludicrous blunder of supposing
that it was Il meeting to discuss the propricty
of doing away with the centreboard in yachts.
The Supreme Court decides that State has
a right to tax out of existence or cOnfscate d
business if it is deemed to be productive OF
poverty, and that no compensation can be
claimed. thus upholding the prohibition laws
of Kansas.
The estimates submitted to Congress by the
Secretary of the Treasury call for 1926 ,'}O, 1913
to run the Government for the next fiscal
year, which is 81 ,344 ,999 more than the esti-
mates of last year, and $l6,SD, ,46 more than
was actually appropriated for this year.